diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md
index fa1adb135..f6ca4b3a9 100644
--- a/docs/faq.md
+++ b/docs/faq.md
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ to build, your pyproject.toml might include a section like this:
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=42",
-    "wheel",
     "Cython",
 ]